Category Archives: Caring
We of the young and old
We of the young look for the bottom line of the old person, our managers see only their form. We of the old have gone, some of us, beyond to formless, bottomless. This can confuse those of us still young. … Continue reading
Surreptitious time
Kairos is surreptitious time. :- Doug.
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Unseen trippable boundaries
The time line of old folks, if it exists at all, might just be with a long past tail, an interminable now, and very short future headlights. If we then, as carefamily, are living in a time line where the … Continue reading
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Rhythms in a nursing home
There are rhythms of life in say a nursing home. The rhythms are like languages where people cannot understand one another. There is the long flowing beat of the older, the staccato of the staff. :- Doug.
Poet who practices
I am a poet who practices as an elder caring lawyer. :- Doug.
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Opportunities in making a Will
What are your opportunities in making a Will and testament? To get rid of, to pass along wisdom, to connect generations, to proselytize? What are the profane uses, the sacred? :- Doug.
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Carefamily?
Caregivers Caretakers Carefamily? :- Doug.
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to ask of us
We’re still living—life has something to offer us and to ask of us. :- Doug.
Conversing with time itself
All’s a conversation: one with others, birds with wind, horses with flies, cedars with snows, you with me. Making clock time for the conversation is impossible: it is designed to be fixed spaces that tick away without mercy. Kairos time … Continue reading
Dangerous
Chronos is about business: Dollars and Numbers. Kairos is about life: its beauty, its goodness, its truth—that life matters. Nurturing matters. Mattering can happen in an instant. Kairos also takes the time it takes: it comes in the form of … Continue reading
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Truth is, not business
Truth is, Kairos is about life, not about business. Life matters. Nurturing matters. :- Doug.
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Kairos is an art
Kairos is an art, it is about beauty and goodness. :- Doug.
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An artist in Kairos
Be an artist in Kairos: here is a way to bring beauty to life, life to flowering. :- Doug.
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Signals of the deep
Listen for the signals of the deep all about the kairos moment :- Doug.
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Start conversations
Get conversations started. Conversations of eyes, gestures, stories, songs, movement. Do we really need words to connect with someone? What is conversation about but loving humanity, helping someone matter? :- Doug.
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